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Attacks and New house guests

"What is it Auntie?" Susan Bones asked as she entered the living room of her family home. Susan Bones had bright blue eyes framed by an oval face with a clear complexion. Her hair was a silky mass of auburn usually in a braid that ran halfway down her back. Her 5"6 body was slender with curves in all the right places and she almost always had a slight smile on her full lips.

"It appears that Minister Fudge has lost the no confidence vote." Amelia Bones smiled as she gestured for Susan to take a seat.

"He lost." Susan said in surprise as she took a seat on the sofa across from her auntie. "The way he has been talking lately he was going to win with flying colours." She remarked referring to the articles in the Daily Prophet.

"Yes but he was saying all that because he was banking on Harry Potter forgiving him for how he treated him this last year and telling the Wizengamot and the public that Fudge had his full confidence." Amelia explained with wide smile.

"What happened?" Susan asked with a smile knowing that when Harry Potter was involved fireworks were bound to have gone off.

"Oh Potter turned up alright, and when asked to give his opinion on Fudge and his running off the Ministry, he stood up, looked Fudge in the eye and said that the man is an incompetent fool who he would not trust to run a tap properly let-a-lone the Ministry of Magic." Amelia laughed along with Susan.

"What was Fudge's reaction to that?" Susan asked when she had got her laughing fit under control.

"He stood there gaping like a fish out of water while the most of the Wizengamot and the rest of the Ministry workers laughed at him." Amelia chuckled as Susan smiled at the guts of Harry Potter.

"We will be reconvening tomorrow to select a temporary replacement until a full vote can be held and thanks to Potter, I' am now the leading candidate to replace Fudge." Amelia spoke a few moments later.

"What did Harry do?" Susan asked with a smile.

"He walked up to me, shook my hand and said very loudly that he hopes I will be running for Minister as I would have his full confidence and support and that he would be the first to vote for me." Amelia answered with a smile.

"Only Harry Potter could remove one Minister and all but select the next one with nothing but his words." Susan smiled back at her auntie.

The conversation turned to more pleasant topics as the evening turned into the night, like what Susan planned to do this summer. Visiting her best friend Hannah Abbott was a given and the two planned to spend a day Muggle shopping as only teen girls do. The two were about to retire for the night when there was a very loud ringing throughout the house.

"The wards, someone is attacking the wards." Amelia shouted as she sprang from her seat, Susan following her. "Susan, get on the Floo and contact Auror headquarters." She instructed her niece as she activated the wards to full power to keep out whoever it was attacking them.

"Incendio." Susan cried pointing her wand at the fireplace. "Auror headquarters." She shouted before throwing the Floo-powder into the flames, however instead of turning the bright green as she expected the flames stayed orange.

"The Floo's not working." Susan informed her aunt who was throwing all the defensive wards she could at the door and wall leading out into the garden.

"A Floo-jamming jinx, whoever's out there must be very powerful." Amelia said in a calm voice as her years of Auror training kicking in. "Shit I can't Apparate out either." She ran to the sofa and picked up a cushion, before pointing her wand at it and muttering the "Portus." Spell at it but too her horror nothing happened when she tried to activate it.

"It's him out there isn't it?" Susan asked not having to explain just who he was.

"Yes I'm afraid that it is." Amelia agreed knowing just who he was; Lord Voldemort had come for the last of the Bones family, nobody else, who would attack them was powerful enough to jam the Floo and block Port-keys and Appartating all at once.

"Well if Harry Potter taught me anything in the DA, then it's, if you're going to go down take as many of the bastards with you as you can manage." Susan steeled herself for her first and most likely only fight in the war against Lord Voldemort, she refused to call him You-Know-Who.

"Smart that Potter." Amelia said grimly before going silent for a moment as she thought her message. "Expecto Patronum." Amelia Bones, Head of the DMLE fired off her only hope of getting help before it was too late.

"Accio DA coin." Susan shouted as she pointed her wand towards the door leading to the stairs as her aunt stiffened for a moment.

"They've breached the outer-wards, only the inner-wards protecting us now." Amelia informed Susan who had just caught a coin that looked like a Galleon and was now squeezing it for all she was worth.

"Harry gave us all coins for when he would set DA meeting times, hopefully someone will see the message and send help." Susan explained to her aunt's raised eyebrow, Amelia just nodded.

"Susan I'm giving you permission to use any lethal spells you know." Amelia said as she waived her wand at the sofa turning it on its side and placing it into the middle of the living room before dragging Susan over and behind it for cover.

"They have breached the inner wards." Amelia spoke moments later as she prepared to fight. "No matter what happens' Susan, I want you to know that I love you." She said speaking what she knew to be, but sincerely hoped were not her last words to her niece.

"I love you too auntie." Susan said as she took a deep breath to calm her nerves to no avail.

BOOM! Without warning the doors leading to the garden was blown inwards sending glass, stone and wood flying into the living room, luckily missing Amelia and Susan who were hiding behind the overturned sofa.

"Ah Amelia Bones, so nice of you to welcome me into your humble home." The high cold tones of Lord Voldemort came through the dust surrounding the huge gaping hole in the wall that had seconds before had been a double door.

"You're not welcome here you bastard." Amelia shouted back as she fired a blasting hex into the dust; the spell must have missed as there was no grunt of pain or any sound of a body hitting the floor.

"Now, now is that anyway for a host to speak to her guests." Mocked Voldemort as Susan ducked back behind the sofa as a purple flame came shooting at her before she could fire her own spell.

"ConjuroLeo." "Conjuro Lupum." Amelia whispered pointing her wand at two ornaments in front of the fireplace transfiguring them into a wolf and lion before setting them too attacking the intruders. She was rewarded with a scream of surprise before the scream turned to gurgling as the Death Eater's throat was ripped open, seconds later there were two yelping noises as someone killed the lion and wolf but they did the job of taking out a Death Eater and making the others weary about entering further.

"Incendio." Susan shot the fire spell into the quickly settling dust. "Auntie, create more dust so they can't see us." She whispered to her aunt after ducking back down.

"Wingardium Leviosa." "Reducto Maxima." Amelia levitated the stone and wood that had been blasted into the room in a pile before sending a blasting hex at the pile sending shards of wood and stone out through the hole and creating more dust to cover their movements.

"Bombarda maxima." Susan whispered as she popped up from behind the sofa as Amelia waived her wand at the glass before sending it flying out through the hole. For some reason the Death Eaters were not just storming into the living room, maybe they had finally wised up that people could set traps for them or maybe they had walked right into a trap and lost comrades.

Susan and Amelia quickly ducked down behind the sofa as twin jets of sickly green light shot through the dust. They returned fire with a piercing hex and fire spell respectively.

"Enough of this." Snarled Voldemort who had obviously lost what little patience he had in him. The next thing Susan and Amelia saw was the tall, thin figure of the Dark Lord striding through the hole in their living room wall.

"Come on out and face me like the Auror you're famous for being Amelia Bones." Voldemort hissed as he dropped into a duelling stance. It seemed that there would be no offers to join him this night.

"Stay here." Amelia whispered to Susan before she stood up and came out from behind the sofa to face Voldemort with her back straight, standing tall like the warrior that she was.

"Good girl." Hissed Voldemort as he glared at the witch in front of him.

"Let Susan go, she has nothing to do with this." Amelia pleaded for the life of her niece to be spared but she knew it was useless.

"I'll think about it." Voldemort sneered mockingly meaning neither of the two Bones would walk away alive. "Now Amelia Bones bow to death."

"Cerebrum Frangat." Amelia fired the skull crushing spell at the Dark Lord in response. She was dismayed to see Voldemort bat it aside like a bothersome fly.

"Sectumsempra." Voldemort returned fire with a dark cutting curse instead of the killing curse Amelia was expecting. It seemed that Voldemort was in no hurry to kill them.

"ContraAtra." Amelia quickly raised one of the more powerful shield charms to protect her from the cutting curse, and even then with the power behind the spell her shield shattered as she was forced to back up a step.

"Aqua Ferventi." Amelia unleashed a jet of boiling water from her wand at the Dark Lord's face; however Voldemort easily blocked it before sending his own back at her which Amelia blocked. It seemed that Voldemort was toying with her.

"Avada Kedavra." Shouted Susan as she sprang up from behind the sofa. However, the would-be killing curse that came out of her wand was very weak and dissipated before it reached even halfway towards Voldemort who began cackling with laughter.

"A nice first try little one but let me show you how it's really done." Voldemort cackled before pointing his wand at Susan. "Avada Kedavra." The sickly green jet jumped from Voldemort's wand and shot at Susan who had enough presence of mind to dive behind the sofa before the curse could hit her.

"Cruore Fervet." Amelia tried to catch Voldemort off guard with a blood boiling curse but the Dark Lord was more than ready for it as he blocked her curse.

"Confringo." "Imperio." "Crucio." It seemed that Voldemort was growing bored of toying with her as his wand fired a chain of spells and it was only Amelia's Auror training that allowed her to shield against the blasting hex before levitating a chunk of stone in front of the mind control spell before dodging the torture curse.

"Avada Kedavra." Amelia fired the killing curse at the Dark Lord who side-stepped it before retuning with one of his own that missed her by inches.

"Expelliarmus." Voldemort shouted completely switching gears and catching Amelia off guard. "No wonder Potter is so fond of that curse." He laughed as he watched Amelia's wand be ripped from her fingers and go flying out of reach.

"Depulso." Voldemort's Banishing Charm caught Amelia full in the chest sending her flying backwards into the sofa that Susan hid behind before she slid to the floor.

"Crucio." Voldemort spat as he advanced further into the room followed by around twenty Death Eaters who had been waiting outside.

Behind the sofa, Susan covered her ears in a vain attempt to block out her aunts agonizing screams. However, it was not to be as moments later a large pair of hands grabbed her arms and dragged her over the sofa and into the middle of the living room, dropping her beside her aunt.

"Crucio." Voldemort now turned his wand on Susan causing her to scream in agonizing pain as her aunt lay besides her panting after her own torture.

"You see what you get for thinking you could defy me." Voldemort hissed as he ended the torture curse on Susan and glared at the last two Bones women. He did not seem to notice that his wards preventing Apparition and Port-keys had just fallen as he turned his wand back towards Amelia.

"Avada." Voldemort began. However, there was a loud crack throughout the living room and a figure appeared between Voldemort and the downed Amelia before he could finish his spell.

"Confringo Maxima." The figure roared catching Voldemort completely unprepared as he was hit full in the chest and blasted into a Death Eater behind him and out through the large hole in the wall. The Death Eaters were completely unprepared for another fifteen witches and wizards to suddenly appear before them. Suddenly the medium size living room became a battle ground as the arriving Order of the phoenix members engaged the Death Eaters, forcing them back out onto the grounds.

"Come on." The figure who had appeared first and blasted Voldemort outside said as he bent down to help Susan and Amelia back to their feet.

"Harry." Susan gasped in surprise and relief as she looked up at their saviour. There standing in front of her was the Boy-Who-lived Harry James Potter himself.

"You said you needed help." Harry smiled as he held up his DA coin. Before anyone could say anything further there were more cracks throughout the living room. Fred and George Weasley appeared along with Lee Jordan, Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet and Katie Bell.

"We heard Ms. Bones was under attack." Fred or George explained their surprise arrival to Harry with a grin (He was holding up his own DA coin). Harry nodded towards the gaping hole where spells could be seen flying back and forth.

"Dumbledore and the order are outside." Harry grinned as the twins led the others out into battle with a war cry and wands raised, only the Weasley Twins could make going into battle look funny.

"Madam Bones, might I suggest you get Susan too the Ministry and safety while we clean up the rest of the scum out there." Harry suggested to Amelia as she went to retrieve her wand and no doubt try to join the fighting out on her front lawn.

"Yes you're right." Amelia agreed after a moment thinking about it, no doubt she wanted to go help fight the Death Eaters but Harry had played on her weakness of protecting Susan as he did not wish to see a Minister for Magic who would do her job right die trying to battle the Death Eaters nor did he wish to lose another classmate in Susan either.

"Thank you for coming Harry." Susan smiled gratefully at Harry as Amelia took hold of her arm.

"All a part of the service." Harry winked at her before Amelia Apparated them away. He turned and ran out the hole in the wall to join the battle. Looking out over the lawn he could see Voldemort and Dumbledore once more locked in battle while Kingsley and Moody double teamed Bellatrix Lestrange in a duel, while the rest of the Order and the six DA members battled against the twenty or so Death Eaters.

"Reducto." Harry spat at the nearest Death Eater catching them in the shoulder sending him/her stumbling forward and into the path of Katie Bell's stunning curse.

"Potter." Came the smooth voice of Severus Snape from Harry's right causing the teen to turn towards his potions professor who was dressed in full Death Eater garb, However Snape winked at him through his mask and Harry nodded back understanding that this would be a friendly duel too keep up appearances to the other Death Eaters and Voldemort and protect Snape's status as a spy.

"Stupefy." Harry intoed firing the stunning spell directly at his professor knowing the man was more than capable of defending against it, which he did batting it to one side.

"Petrificus Totalus." Snape fired back inwardly relishing at been able to fire curses at Harry even if it was really practise for them both, well for Harry anyway.

"Protego." Harry blocked the jinx easily. "Impedimenta." The duel between Harry and Snape slowly picked up speed yet neither one used anything more powerful than a fifth year spell.

Harry and Snape's duel hardly lasted five minutes before there were more popping sounds and the Auror's finally arrived on the scene.

"RETREAT." Voldemort screamed at his followers before he vanished into the night along with his Death Eaters.

"Not bad Potter." Snape said with a nod of his head.

"Thank you sir." Harry smiled with his own nod before Snape Apparated away following the Dark Lord and the Death Eaters. He turned towards the Order and Auror's.

"Nice duel Harry." Fred and George said in unison as he came upon them.

"It was Snape; it was just practice for me while keeping his cover up." Harry explained with a grin as they watched Dumbledore explain the situation to head Auror Rufus Scrimgeour.

"His cover." Katie Bell asked with confusion on her face.

"Yeah, he's a spy for our side." Harry whispered back with a slight grin.

"Why are you whispering?" Angelina Johnson asked in a whisper.

"Because you never know where there might be a Death Eater spy." Harry whispered back gesturing towards the Auror's who were now getting statements from the Order members.

"Good point." Nodded Lee Jordan. Once they had all given their own statements to the Auror's, Harry walked across the lawn towards his Headmaster.

"Ah Harry, very well done on catching Tom by surprise and sending him out to me." Dumbledore praised Harry with a large smile.

"Thank you sir, it was almost a release to curse Tommy-boy for a change instead of him cursing me." Harry smiled back causing the headmaster to chuckle.

"Yes I imagine it was who was the Death Eater you were duelling with?" Dumbledore asked with twinkling eyes as he saw that Harry was completely unhurt after quickly looking the lad over.

"Professor Snape." Harry answered with a smile to which Dumbledore nodded.

"Ah Severus was keeping up appearances." Dumbledore smiled widely at Harry. "I'm very glad the two of you agreed to put aside you're differences for the war."

"Did we manage to capture any?" Harry asked him after a moment's pause.

"Unfortunately not, whenever an Order member managed to stun a Death Eater, they would vanish before they even hit the ground." Dumbledore explained with rueful shake of his head.

"Port-keys designed to activate when the Death Eater is knocked out, cleaver, maybe the Order should use them." Harry commented thinking of how useful they would be in battle.

"Yes I was just thinking the same thing." Dumbledore agreed before they both fell silent watching the Order and Auror's checking the grounds and house for any lingering Death Eaters.

"The area is clean Albus." Remus Lupin informed Dumbledore five minutes later.

"I didn't really expect any of them to linger." Dumbledore replied with a smile to which Lupin nodded.

"Alright Harry?" Lupin smiled at Harry as he noticed the bright sparkle in Harry's eyes, no doubt excited at his first real mission with the Order and a successful one at that.

"Absolutely splendid Moony old boy." Harry replied with that crooked grin of his reminding Remus of James saying something similar after a battle in the first war, the only difference was that James had been getting a deep cut in his back tended to at the time.

"Well Harry and I are going to head to the Ministry if everything here is under control." Dumbledore spoke up moments later.

"We are?" Harry asked in slight surprise.

"Yes I thought we would offer the Bones women some temporary accommodation until they can get their home repaired." Dumbledore explained with his eyes giving a full blown twinkle and a large smile on his face.

"Fair enough." Harry shrugged completely missing the meaning behind Dumbledore's smile, Remus however, didn't.

"Maybe you could ask the lovely Ms. Bones on a date." Remus teased with a grin.

"I will when you finally ask Tonks out." Harry teased back with his own grin.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Replied a lightly blushing Remus.

"Riiight and you didn't stare at her at the last two Order meetings." Harry replied sarcastically.

"Shut up Potter." Remus muttered before walking away with a bright red face as Harry laughed and Dumbledore chuckled at the two.

"Ready Harry?" Dumbledore asked with a smile.

"Yes sir." Harry replied before popping away followed seconds later by Dumbledore. The two appeared in the Ministry Atrium before making their way towards the lifts, the security wizard just waving them by with a nod, once they had entered the lift; Dumbledore pressed the button for the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (floor 2) after a short ride, the two exited the lift and made their way towards Amelia Bones' office, which they entered after knocking and being bade to do so. Upon entering they found Amelia sat behind her desk talking to Susan.

"Ah Albus, Mr Potter, come in take a seat." Amelia said with a smile as she waived her wand conjuring two more chairs for the pair.

"Thank you." The two replied as they did just that.

"What happened after we left?" Amelia asked getting right to the point.

"We managed to successfully drive back Voldemort and his Death Eaters after a five minute battle." Dumbledore replied with a smile as he conjured a tea set with four cups before he poured them all a cup.

"Any prisoners." Amelia asked after taking her tea.

"None, they had Port-keys set to activate as soon as the owner was stunned." Dumbledore replied as he took a gulp of tea.

"Oh well can't win everything, anyway I thank you and your people for the timely arrival." Amelia smiled a grateful smile as Susan murmured her own thanks.

"Ah but you should thank your wonderful niece for alerting Harry who in turn alerted the rest of the Order." Dumbledore said with a smile at the two teens.

"Thank you both." Amelia smiled at Susan and Harry who smiled back.

"Well Amelia your home will need a few repairs before you can live in it again and Harry here came up with the idea of you and Susan staying at his place until then." Dumbledore spoke up with a smile.

"I did?" Harry asked with a frown. "I'm mean I did, you'd be very welcome." He smiled a moment later wondering why Dumbledore was telling them that it was his idea and not his own.

"Thank you for the offer." Amelia began before Harry interrupted her.

"But you already have somewhere to stay." Harry interrupted with a small smile.

"No I was just going to say that would be most welcome." Amelia informed him with a smile.

"Oh right I see." Harry said feeling a little embarrassed. "Dobby." He called.

"You be calling Dobby master Harry Potter sir." Dobby the house-elf said seconds later.

"Yes, could you go to the Bones family home and collect Madam Bones' and Susan's thing they are going to be staying with us for awhile whilst their home is redecorated." Harry asked the excitable little fellow.

"Right away Harry Potter sir." Dobby said excitably before he popped away.

"Strange fellow." Amelia grinned referring to the five hats that Dobby had been wearing on his head.

"That's Dobby." Harry laughed. "Well after tonight's events I'm going home to bed, here is the secret to my home, memorize it then destroy it please." He handed a piece of Parchment to Susan who then passed it over to Amelia who set fire to it a moment later after she had read it also.

"I've got a few more things to sort out here so I'll see you both in the morning." Amelia informed them as she motioned for Susan to go with Harry.

"That's fine Madam Bones, just call for Dobby when you arrive and he will show you to the room you will be sharing with Susan." Harry said with a smile as he opened the door for Susan who smiled shyly at him as she passed.

"No problem and thank you again." Amelia said with a smile as she mused that she'd smiled quite a lot tonight in front of none family members, something she tried to avoid so she could keep up her no no-nesense appearance.

"My pleasure Madam." Harry said with a nod before bidding her and the Headmaster a goodnight. He chatted about everyday things with Susan as they walked to the lifts and then to the fireplaces in the Atrium, after Floo-ing back to his new home, Harry gave Susan a quick tour of the house before showing her to her room.

"Thank you for everything Harry." Susan said with a shy smile as she stood in the doorway to her room for the foreseeable future.

"You're welcome Susan." Harry said with a crooked grin not realising that he was turning Susan's knees to jelly. "I'm just next door if you need me, goodnight." He turned to go.

"Harry." Susan called before he could leave. "Do you think you could give me some lessons in defence, I felt so useless tonight." She looked at the floor embarrassed.

"Susan you survived an attack by Lord Voldemort you are far from useless." Harry said as he lifted he chin up to look her in the eyes. "But if you feel you need more lessons then yes, I would be happy to help." He said softly as he gazed into Susan's bright blue eyes.

"I do, thank you." Susan said as she got a vision in her mind of her saying `I do` to Harry in a very different setting.

"Well goodnight Susan." Harry said breaking eye contact and heading into his own room.

"Goodnight Harry." Susan said with a sigh, she would not have said no to a goodnight kiss. Then again she supposed a lad no man like Harry Potter would not be interested in a girl like her. With another sigh she closed her door and got ready for bed, falling asleep minutes later dreaming of a messy haired, green eyed teen.

End of chapter

AN: For those keeping score, this chapter took place three weeks into the summer after fifth year.